Everyday Systems

I staredt the No S Diet on Monday. I finished reading the book this week also.... I have one question I am trying to determine what fitting everything on one plate means... For instance if I have a salmon burger on a bun with lettuce, tomatoes,cheese do I make sure it all fits on the plate before putting it all together????? Does that make sense.

This first weeks has gone okay.... I had green days. It was very hard and I had to talk myself out of eating a sweet several times. The seconds was not a big deal for me as I usually don't take seconds... It is making sure to eat 3 meals that has been hard for me....

Congrats and welcome!

When I have a salmon burger, I put the put-together-burger on one side of the plate, and a salad or something on the other. I fill my plate "loosely" in that the burger is sort of "stacked," but I don't lay out the burger first as you describe.

Don't overthink it too much. Whatever you do will probably be better than what you WERE doing, right?

KK,

WELCOME!

and sounds like you are off to a good start!

agree with KCCC, put the "assembled" burger on your plate not the separate pieces! IMHO,

Blueskighs

Welcome, KK!

The most important thing about the one plate rule is to see all the food you are going to eat at a meal in front of you at the same time. If it's excessive, well, at least it'll look excessive, you won't be deceiving yourself. Once you eliminate the possibility of self deception, you'll eliminate most overeating, because it just isn't pleasant to knowingly, obviously overeat -- being a glutton is one thing, but no one wants to look like a glutton. The physical plate is less important as a physical limit than as something to give visual perspective -- something of known dimensions to contrast with the amount of your food. Sort of like how when someone wants to show how small one of those tiny brazilian monkeys is, they photograph it with a human hand.

Reinhard

Bienvenu KK! May God bless you with success!